[kaz]

Come on where is everyone today it looks as if they have all gone on holiday.

[Rosemary]

Been in the garden - weeding!

[Dave and Viv]

Been working, dreaming of better weather!

[Hilarysmum]

Chasing chickens ....

[kaz]

I've been fed up of getting wet every time I venture outside to do a job.Is it ever going to stop raining long enough to get out and do all those essential jobs that you need to do this time of year.

[carole]

Hi everyone

Have had problems recently with my computer accessing this site, and boy have I missed all the chat, fingers crossed all now ok.
Also have had some very difficult visitors staying so time to get back to normal now!!!!

Carole

[stephen]

Working  ............ nearley the weekend tho! yay!! 

[kaz]

So I go outside again hang out a line full of washing as there is a lovely blue sky and a bit of a breeze, and what happens it sneeks up on me why I'm not looking, of course no coat on only a cardi and I'm soaked again before I can get to the nearest shelter, Talk about the height of summer whats gone wrong. I'll be harvesting may hay in December at this rate and the girls will be costing me a fortune in feed.

[doganjo]

I've been making a movable run for my chicken girls and moving them in to live my duck girls - only at night as they will have the front garden in the daytime.
Annie

[greenfingers]

I've been chasing small chicks around the garden, we have called one Houdini and one Najinski, one can escape and one can escape and run like the wind.  The weather up here in the north east of Scotland has been alot better than the rest of the country.  I have been busy strimming weeds and weed killing the area which hopefully next year will be my wild flower meadow.  It covers about 350 sq yards, a fair area to strim & weedkill.
We have also had an opportunity for some free fire wood for the winter so we have been on pallet runs at the weekend which took most of Sunday, we still have some more to collect.
I have harvested my potatoes, and we are now eating peas, broad beans and courgettes.  My chard is just about finished and this morning I have pulled 2 parsnips for dinner this evening.  I have also taken fuschia cuttings for next year, I still have some more to do and have potted all my strawberry runners.
We had some visitors last week for 3 days, some one I had not seen for about 18 years and it was lovely to catch up with him and his new lady.  We got stuck talking about family history and tracing it, which next to gardening is my next favourite pastime, so I have been searching into his family history for him.  I was hoping to do Genealogy as an occupation when we moved up here, but no takers so far.

[kaz]

You are definately faring better with the weather up there than where we are. My husband decided to fit new door frame to our small cottage that is behind the house, as the frame at the base was completely rotten, August supposedly being the best time to do this. Took door off, that was as rotten as a carrot at base where water had been penetrating through frame (Looks like a cheap softwood door been put on there quite some years ago) and since then has not been able to finish the job because as soon as he is home it rains, and when he is at work its dry. What I need is a fair weather Man.
You must excuse any spelling mistakes as my reading glasses met with an accident so I can't check what I have written down until they are fixed.

[Francis Bacon]

Well I hate to say this guy's but we have been having lovely weather here in the Indre region in France 

We've managed to clear out a lot of undergrowth which has been allowed to grow for about 10 yrs before we moved here
In the evenings we've mostly been catching our neighbour's cockerel who we borrowed to see to our girls who have been giving him the run around most of the week   
We've moved the sheep to a nice new lush green area & the pigs are happy as larry basking in the sunshine & grunting contently.
Oh & not forgetting arranging the delivery of our newest member a lovely Tammie sow soon to be in pig 
Donna

[kaz]

  I don't know, don't you just hate some people. I wish we were having some of what you've got there, here.

[Rosemary]

It's been warm and sunny here today - first time for ages. I'm back to work thsi week so that's why.

[Pebbles]

I just returned from Oxford last night after three days of hell - corporate training and personality assessment (!!!) run by two extremely annoying, silly, squeaky women with no understanding of the NLP they were trying to pop in to the training and a total passion for Myers-Briggs personality 'pigeon-holeing' of people. So I now know I am an 'INTP' (?) and that people ONLY fall in to one of 16 catagories.....oh yes, I have had soooo much fun (can you feel my pain?). My company obviously has more money than sense! The only good thing about the whole experience was that it was set in a beautiful De Veres hotel deep in the country.

I'm off now to get back to reality and deal with some 'intellegent life forms' - my pigs and sheep!!

Oh how I wish I could just cut the strings and leave the 'madness' of the 9-5 behind!

Glad to hear you're all well and busy - I have been checking in with you all, but just no time to post messages.

Be happy!